Sim, arcade, simcade, anything. I’m kinda disconnected from the genre and want to know what is considered the GOATs of racing games to try them out.

Me personally, I’d say Dirt Rally 2, very addicting gameplay.

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    I miss the arcade-y feel of older racing games. Everything these days tries too hard to be a simulator, that they end up stripping the fun out of it. I want sparks to fly out of my tires when I drift even though they’re rubber and wouldn’t actually do that, I want wacky announcers with color commentary, I don’t want to shift gears.

    I want games like Ridge Racer and Need for Speed to make a comeback.

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      Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit or Burnout: Paradise might be the closest to what you’re looking for. They’re both open-world games, but I don’t think they really have that open-world filler that you see a lot of. They both got remastered releases in the last few years.

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        Hot pursuit is barely an open world game. There’s never a point to find around in the open world, in fact most people might even miss that you can do that.

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      I loved Project Gotham Racing because it rode the line between arcade game and simulator quite nicely. I haven’t seen anything like it since.

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      Mario kart is still a thing. I absolutely hate the not actually random item drops, though. Getting punished for being in the lead is lame.